In the pale moonlight of an early December dawn, Henry Chambers was deep fucking his panting wife for the third time that night. Prudence lay eagerly beneath her husband as he pummeled her well ploughed furrow with the urgent stabbings of an oncoming spend. His sweat laden face was pressed against her right cheek as she urged him on in their animalistic passion and the need to reach their climax in unison.
Prudence sensed his loss of rhythm and lifted herself higher so that her woolen stockinged thighs drew him closer into her core and her ankles bounced on his pounding backside to bring him home. "Henry, love," she gasped, the delicious melting pot deep within her beginning to blaze into a burning furnace. "Keep on. The moment is near. Ahhh. Your cock feels so deep inside me. Ahhh. Ahhhhh.. ohhhhhhh!!"
Prudence felt the apple sized head of his member growing larger and larger as her husband fucked on and on. Such was his vigor, he had pushed them both higher up the double bed and the oak paneled headboard was now thumping against the bedroom wall in tribute to their mating. Thump, thump, thump. Prudence whispered to her husband. "H.. Henry. Oh. Wait! You'll wake the house!"
Henry just grunted. His whole world was centered on the length of flesh that was surging in and out of his wife's sex. He gave a sudden gasp and buried himself right up to the hilt as the delirium of his climax washed over him and he felt his wife bite down onto his right shoulder as she rode the wave with him. He promptly collapsed with a groan into the pillow as Prudence giggled in his ear as he saluted his final spurt of his spunk with a resounding fart that rattled around the bedroom. "Bravo, husband!" she breathed, kissing his cheek. "A worthy salute for such a noble effort!"
Henry groaned as he raised himself from covering his wife and eased himself from the depth of her sex and between her damp thighs. Breathing deeply, he lay beside her staring up into the blue darkness above them. "Be sated beloved," he muttered as the banging drum in his chest slowed to its natural order. "I doubt the flesh between my legs can muster another stand this night even if the mind is willing." He reached for his spent cock and winced at the sharp rawness along its shrinking length due to the friction caused by the embedded need for sensible precaution.
Prudence got up and dashed naked to her dresser where a jug of water and a bowl stood with a clean cloth to dry her. Bending over, she reached between her thighs and carefully examined her sex. "Thrice this night is more than enough, Henry," she smiled as she took the end of the string that hung down from the opening to her pussy and pulled it gently so that the hidden roll of tied spunk soaked sponge slid from the depths of her passage and out with a soft "plop." She glanced towards the double bed where she saw Henry watching her. She blushed slightly and turned to dump the evidence of male lust into a small box so that she could dispose of it later when propriety allowed.
"Once is a delight, twice is a joy," she smiled. "Three times is never a chore. Especially submitting my sex to as fine and large a cock as yours." Prudence poured a small measure of water into the bowl and dipped the cloth into it. She then cleaned the sweat and oily remnants of his spend from around her crotch and arsehole which was still throbbing urgently after her number two fucking. Once done, she returned to his side and drew the blankets around them for the chill of Winter was beginning to win the battle over the heat of their coupling.
Henry closed his eyes for that warm post sex ache was washing him to sleep. "What plans for the 'morrow, dearest?" he asked as he felt his mind drifting into the ether.
Prudence snuggled in closer. "Do you remember Miss Armitage?" she replied.
"The widow?" he frowned.
"Um huh," she nodded as she lent closer and inhaled the smell of him. "Our paths crossed again last week during a society reading trip to Millers bookstore in Westingtons. A pleasant surprise as I haven't seen her in over a month and it must be nearly four months since her husbands funeral. I suspect the poor woman needed time to get over the shock and the change in her social situation. So we have arranged to meet in one of the Tea rooms up Petticoat Lane and renew our acquaintances over a cup of their finest brew and scones." Prudence stared thoughtfully up into the dark. "Such a sad thing for her to go through at such an age. I wonder how life finds her these days." she wondered.
Henry mumbled dreamily as the sound of her voice lulled him into the land of nod.
*
The following day found Prudence sat in a window seat looking out at the hustle and bustle of Petticoat street market where the tide of London life ebbed and flowed as its citizens went about the drudge of daily living in order to sell their wares or spend their coin. The air was crisp, the weather fine, and the world a pristine white in a blanket of over night snow. Across from Prudence sat the widow Miss Armitage who still wore the black mourning shawl over her heavy tweed coat. Prudence watched as she lifted the cup to her lips and took a sip of piping hot tea.
"At least the wind is in a favorable direction this day," she sniffed. "The smell from the Thames has been quite something these past few days. Goodness knows what it must be like in the vicinity of the slaughter houses and fisheries. I swear I'd have to walk out and about with a peg on my nose!" She made a face and blushed slightly for the older woman was looking at her with a warm smile and sympathy in her eyes. She shook her head and raised a gloved hand. "Honestly, Prudence, I am well on the mend. Time as they say does work its magic and even the saddest heart can be over come. Life goes on."
Prudence reached and took her hand. "Never think you face that life alone, Lizzie. You and Albert were always considered good company among those who knew you both well or not. And you are correct, life does go on and whatever challenges fate has in store for us we must meet them with a firm jaw and good grace. Who knows," she smiled. "One of those whims of fate may be a new relationship."
Lizzie rolled her eyes. "Oh goodness no, Prudence. Perish the thought of having to go back into the cock and bull of courtship again. I have no desire to partake the ritual of society match making and that nervous expectation of disappointment again. I am a plain Jane, Prudence, I thought I was done with all that frivolity when Albert found me. He has left me with a tidy estate upon which to live my widowhood. I have a number of pursuits with which to fill my day."
Prudence gave her hand a squeeze and nodded. "You always were a book worm."
Lizzie looked at her companion over the rim of her cup. "Though..." she began, hesitantly. Her gaze drifting to the window. "There are, " she paused. "Things..."
"Hmmmm?" replied Prudence as she nibbled on a strawberry jam covered scone.
Lizzie glanced at the other patrons enjoying their mid-day lunches. She sat forward slightly. "Well, I'm not sure I should," She lent forward further and bit her lower lip. "What I mean is. May I speak with you in confidence, Prudence?"
Prudence put down her cup and lowered her head. Her curiosity was piqued. "Of course, Lizzie, Always." Whatever was the matter?
Licking her lips, Lizzie blushed as she considered what was appropriate and what exactly she was willing to admit to her dear friend. That Prudence was older and more worldly than her eased the discomfort of her confession. "Though I have no intention of seeking out a partner now or in the foreseeable future, I do," she paused and wriggled in her seat. "How to put this? I some what do miss the physical aspects of being married."
Prudence sat back and looked at Lizzie who sat wide eyed with the complexion of a ripe tomato. AH. "Ohhhh," she whispered. Now there is a thing. "I see. Well, that is only natural, Lizzie. Was dear Albert a physical man – if I may be so bold?"
Lizzie shook her head. "Heaven's no," she replied. "You and I both know that my late husband was a man of letters and was more than likely to be found with his nose in a book. He was a man who challenged and valued the mind more than the body. I loved my husband more than anything but he could be a little slow coming forward as it were. Our physical relationship was not as vigorous as I imagined it would be at the beginning, though it was never a cause of ill will between us in our seven years together. I simply accepted that the physical part of our marriage would be as brief as ships passing in the night." Lizzie picked up her cup and gently swilled the remaining tea feeling she had said too much in polite company.
Prudence considered the younger woman who sat silently opposite her awkwardly twiddling her thumbs and avoiding her gaze. That her late husband was a stickler had been obvious and the confirmation thus saddened her heart. No doubt their coupling had been as adventurous as his character and had left his wife unsatisfied. No child had been bred from her and, even though her love was true, she had born her wifely duty with resigned determination as many a Victorian spouse did. Like she had – until Henry had shown her what true physical love could be between husband and wife. Prudence and Lizzie both sat deep in their own thoughts. It was in that moment of silence a sudden possibility came to Prudence. She blinked in surprise as the notion danced around inside her head. It took her a second to compose her thoughts and herself before she bent forward towards the younger woman and, as their eyes met, whispered, "Lizzie. May I present to you a suggestion for your consideration..."
*
The late afternoon of December 3rd 1899 found the great city of London festive under another heavy fall of snow that had lasted for most of that day. Normally a pallid grey, the landscape was a crisp and frosty white from where countless chimneys belched clouds of smoke as the populace endeavoured to keep warm as the ill winds of Winter bit deep.
Bouncing down Ludgate Hill towards the imposing edifice that was St Paul's Cathedral, a carriage-man pulled on the reins to draw his horse to a halt as the two seater hansom cab stopped outside a two story brick town house that still bore the outward facade of its original Tudor design. He laid his whip to one side and flipped open a hatch on the top of the cab.
"Here we be, Sir." He called to the two passengers inside. "Number 22. Ludgate." His voice bore the signs of many an ale drunk and too many a bawdy song sung in his two score and seven years. His breath floated around him in clouds of white before fading away on a slight breeze. With a grunt, he jumped down and opened the cab door.
His passengers disembarked and stood huddled together under the skeletal branches of a sleeping snow laden Syamore tree. Two shillings were placed in his gloved hand and he tugged his hat in thanks.